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Posted on July 3, 2010
Engineering Students Design, Build, Soar Above Competition
Mississippi State students engineer another successful year at the Unmanned Air Systems Competition through teamwork and autonomous flight. The 10-member student team, named Xipiter, placed second overall at the eighth annual student Unmanned Air Systems Competition by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. They rose above 21 other peer institutions such as Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Rutgers University, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and Cornell University. The aerospace engineering department’s senior flight test engineer, Calvin Walker, said, “It’s a really great feeling when you find out going into the competition that the Air Force is telling the other schools that you are the team to beat.”
